Vladimir Putin accused Donald Trump of being willing to sacrifice American interests

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Moscow. Vladimir Putin accused Donald Trump's critics of being prepared to sacrifice the interests of the United States, writes the Russian daily "Vedomosti" .
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reacted to US criticism of the results of his meeting in Helsinki with US President Donald Trump. "In the United States, we see that there are forces that place their group, the party's narrow interests on the national." Our satirical writers called such people – pitiful and insignificant people – but in this case On the contrary, they are not powerful and strong, they can pbad on to millions of their citizens different stories difficult to learn from normal logic, "said the president at a meeting with ambbadadors and Permanent Representatives at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday
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Commenting on the events in the United States, where after the meeting in Helsinki, Trump was criticized, Putin said: "We see that there are forces in the United States willing to sacrifice Russian-American relations. Americans in the domestic political struggle in America "According to him, these forces are ready to sacrifice the interests of the American company," which loses millions of dollars in contracts – by losing the Russian market. " They are also willing to sacrifice American jobs – but not many but still available with cooperation with blonde "It's tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of jobs," he said. Vladimir Poutine.
"These forces are ready to sacrifice the interests of their allies in Europe and the Middle East, in particular, for example, the interests of the state of Israel – because we have spoken (with Trump), especially concerning the security on the Golan Heights with Syria, "added the Russian president. Critics of the talks between Trump and Putin are ready to sacrifice their own security, Putin said. "I want to draw your attention to the fact that the START-3 agreement expires in 2021. In general, we could live without it, a few years ago, but we did the right thing – we reached the conclusion of the contract, and if today, now, work on his continuation has not started, and after a year and a half he will finish, he will not be.
Putin complains, "We have always taught that people who work for the state in the interest of society must first think of these fundamental interests and always put them forward. but no. "
Despite Donald Trump's mbadive criticism, Putin still hopes that the "road to positive change" in relations between Russia and the United States has begun. "I think it's important that we finally have a meeting in full format that allowed us to speak directly, and that has generally been successful, led to some useful arrangements, see, of course, how the events will develop, "said the president.

Translation and Editing: Julian Markov

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